From where he stands, Joe Calzaghe can see the end of his great boxing career. The undefeated "Pride of Wales," says it will come after Saturday night's light-heavyweight Ring Magazine title bout against Roy Jones Jr. at New York's famed Madison Square Garden.

Team Columbia manager Bob Stapleton wants to put an end to internal politics in cycling and thinks the best way to clean up doping is for an independent body to permanently oversee the sport's drug testing.

Garth Stein's novel The Art of Racing in the Rain (Harper, $23.95) is the new Starbucks book selection. It will be available in more than 7,000 Starbucks (and other retailers) starting May 13. It's the first time the java giant will feature a work of fiction by a relatively unknown writer. A contemporary family drama involving a race-car driver, Stein's third novel is narrated by the driver's wise dog, Enzo.

From his rented home near the barren desert foothills, Joe Calzaghe can clearly see the incandescent lights of the Strip. His name is up in those lights for the first time, and it looms above the city as a question.

Pope Benedict XVI castigated popular culture for promoting sexual immorality Friday as he canonized Brazil's first native-born saint before hundreds of thousands of faithful and a sea of flags in the world's largest Roman Catholic nation.

The girls who play Patricia Arquette's TV daughters on NBC's Medium shriek in terror and burst into tears. The cause? Not the talking corpses or serial-killing ghosts Arquette encounters in her Emmy-winning role as seer Allison Dubois, but actors in ghoulish masks and makeup at Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights.